Things Unexpectedly Named After People

Two Portland neighborhoods built on cleared forest are called Sellwood and Moreland. When I heard they were named after people, I thought it was a joke. Further, Moreland was a real estate agent.

Diesel (Engine) - Rudolf Diesel

Mercedes-Benz - named after the daughter of Carl Benz

This list is amazing and hilarious

This one was a surprise to me, Boolean (as in logic/algebra) is actually named after George Bool.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fowler%27s_position

"Sitting down" in a hospital setting is named after some dude, and that name is actually used in medicine.

At my old job we would order silicone oil from a company called ClearCo, who sell all forms of clear silicone products. Seemed obvious enough.

But wait! Founded by Frank Cleary and still run by Chris Cleary! With no acknowledgment at all of how funny that is!

Thomas Crapper, while he did not invent the crapper, designed several improvements to it still in use today.

The Polaroid land camera was named after it's inventor, Edwin Land.

Southern blot is a neat full circle:

The method is named after the British biologist Edwin Southern, who first published it in 1975.[3] Other blotting methods (i.e., western blot,[4] northern blot, eastern blot, southwestern blot) that employ similar principles, but using RNA or protein, have later been named for compass directions as a sort of pun from Southern's name.

what about Haribo

The "web 1.0"ness of this website is so nostalgic, it's wonderful!

No love for Caesar salad or Nachos?

I had to make sure it had Outerbridge Crossing.

You should hear the story of Jimmy Space.

One of the funniest things ever associated with Warhammer 40k. Even if you know nothing about Warhammer, even if you hate warhammer this clip from a podcast is still funny.

I always had suspicion that the name "Erlang" came from a name, as at least in my country the name "Airlangga" (people usually shorten it like "Erlang") , is a pretty common name